Barbara Stahura’s Resume
• Journaling Instruction (for more information see Journaling Workshops)
After Brain Injury: Telling Your Story, a journaling workshop for people with brain injury, which I created and facilitate. Now also a book from Lash & Associates Publishing/Training.
Journaling to Ease Compassion Fatigue, presented at 2010 National Guard Health Promotion and Annual Prevention Training Workshop, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2010. (Can be customized for other groups.)
Care for Yourself, Too: A Restful Exploration for Family Caregivers, a workshop that provides simple self-care methods, including journaling, for family caregivers of people with serious illness or injury.
Journal to the Self®, created by Kathleen Adams, founder of The Center for Journal Therapy, which presents 18 simple techniques that can be used to enhance and deepen one’s journaling practice. [link to center web site]
Certified Instructor, Journal to the Self®
Enrolled in Certified Journal Facilitator program from The Center for Journal Therapy, Wheat Ridge, CO.
• Freelance Writing
From 1994 to 2010, I provided a number of writing and writing-related services, including feature article and book writing, copywriting, copyediting, and proofreading.
Books
- After Brain Injury: Telling Your Story, with co-author Susan B. Schuster, M.A.-CCC SLP, the first journaling workbook for people with brain injury. Lash and Associates Publishing/Training, September 2009
- Diabetes (Diseases and Disorders), Lucent Books, 2009, for middle-school students
- What I Thought I Knew (collection of personal essays/memoir), Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, Inc., September 2008
- For MT Publishing, Inc.: The Battle for Anzio; First Infantry Division in World War II: The Big Red One (with Maj. Gen. Clift Andrus); Earthquakers: 12th Bombardment Group; Indiana Farm Bureau (1919-1999): Era of Change; Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War; A History of Hamilton County, Illinois; and others
Books Co-authored
- Peak Vitality: Raising the Threshold of Abundance in our Material, Spiritual, and Emotional Lives (Elite Books, 2008): Associate Editor
- Einstein's Business: Engaging Soul, Imagination, and Excellence in the Workplace (Elite Books, 2007): Associate Editor. (Honored by The National Indie Excellence Book Award as the Best Business 2007 Book)
- For Faircount International, as senior writer: Uncommon Valor: 50th Anniversary of the Battle for Iwo Jima; NOAA: Celebrating 200 Years of Science, Service, and Stewardship; Forgotten Victory: 50th Anniversary of the Korean War; Delivering America: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the United Service Organizations; Wings of Glory: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the United States Air Force; Forest Service Centennial; and others.
Features and personal essays
Print Publications:
- Spirituality & Health, The Progressive, Science of Mind, Science & Spirit, Pure Inspiration, Independent Business, Sculptural Pursuit, Executive Female, The Christian Science Monitor, Arts Indiana, Soroptimist International, Evansville Courier, Evansville Living, Illinois Business, On the Issues, Indiana Journal of Commerce and Industry, German News, Troika, The World of Martial Arts, Sojourner, FiberArts, and others
Online
- Newsweek.com, MSNBC.com, Cutting Edge Law, Word Journeys, Moondance, American News Service
Poetry
- Southern Indiana Review, Poet, and Open 24 Hours
Awards
- First Place, Prose, Sculptural Pursuit, 2006 writing contest, “Overcoming the Wobblies, or Those Are the Brakes”
- First Place, Personal Essay/Memoir, Society of Southwestern Authors 2003 Writing Contest, “My Dad and the Sphinx”
- Winner of 2001 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for “Another Way of Doing Justice,” published in Science of Mind, July 2001.